Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee (RSC), told The Hill that he will push for a vote on the controversial issue in the 112th Congress. The RSC has 175 members. "I think RSC will push for it, and I’m certainly strongly for it. I don’t know if we’ve made a decision if I’ll do it or let another member do it, but I’m 100 percent for it," Jordan said.

In the last Congress, Jordan was the lead sponsor on the D.C. Defense of Marriage Act. The bill was introduced after the D.C. City Council and then-Mayor Adrian Fenty indicated they would recognize same-sex marriages. Jordan’s measure garnered 53 co-sponsors last year. But it is expected to attract more support in the GOP-led House in 2011.

Jordan was one of 49 congressmen, including two senators, who filed an amicus brief to Bishop Harry Jackson's challenge to the D.C. Board of Elections refusal to allow a ballot measure on the issue. The Court refused to intervene.

Thats all republicans seem to wanna do is TAKE,TAKE health care away from people TAKE the right for women to choose and TAKE our right to marry. TAKE TAKE TAKE

Thank You my democrat congressmen for introducing a bill in maryland congress that would allow me to marry the man i love. Thank you my democrat president for giving my uninsured ass health care, Thank you Democrats. I will be voting 2012!

I don't think his opposition to marriage equality necessarily means he's a closet case. Some people are just slaves to religious worldview (just checked and surprise! Jordan is an evangelical). Some are just so pathetically insecure that they need an entire group of people unlike them to oppress. Whatever his reason, he's a tw@t.